Hot Hose Issue

Don't have a picture, but I know Southeastern Pneumatic sells them. We buy 99% of our pneumatic parts from them. Very knowledgeable and reasonable on pricing.

 

Yeah, I didn't get a picture of it yesterday like I wanted. I ran someone else's truck for the short trip that I ran, had a flat tire along the way, and it was as hot as the third rung of hell. Try again tonight lol.

 

I finally had some time to look for a link for the swivel.

FSV Adapter Swivel (360º Swivel Male NPT) On PT Coupling Co.

 

@Frank Speak I've been meaning to suggest that you make sure you have excellent hearing protection. Everyone around me when I was doing bulk was either wearing two kinds at once (which is what all the big mines require, but my company didn't tell me that or supply the muffs) or none at all and could not hear, esp on the left side.

I started with the inserts only; I like these clay type insert ones from MightyPlugs, and then I bought myself some muffs at a Home Hippo once I found a memo that my company hadn't bothered to give me about needing to wear two at once. There is a lot less fatigue by the end of the day with the muffs on.

Wearing two kinds might seem overkill, but I had a precedent for it on the railroad; people who ran hump retarders had to wear two. It was a rules exam question, I never ran retarders but they are very loud and piercing, not unlike a blower. The old former retarder operators could not hear a 747 landing on them, and we got very carefully hearing tested when we hired (in a corner of an abandoned office not in a medical office near a loud HVAC fan) so there were obviously losses and lawsuits over it.

 

@speedyk, thank you.

Yes, I wear hearing protection. Surprisingly, and I mentioned this oddity to my wife, I’ve noticed only 2 or 3 of my co-workers wearing any protection. I don’t see how they do that. All that racket literally hurts my ears. I even wear them at this one place where I load myself because it’s noisy up on the loading platform.

I wear Howard Leight QB2. Also, once I get my stuff going I hop back in the cab and watch my gauges in the mirror, hooping out to change hoppers and check my ear straps (I use Velcro straps on the ears at both ends of the hose.